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Biodiversity and Conservation

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  • 1/22/23: "Global Warming Is Driving Polar Bears Toward Extinction, Researchers Say" NYT
  • 10/20/22: "Endangered Species Act Isn't Working Well, Study Finds"
  • 8/28/22: "Indigenous leaders get a choice: Join the narcos or run for your lives" WaPo
  • 8/3/22: "Global Forest Area Declined by 60% Since 1960, Study Finds" Ecowatch
  • 6/27/22: "BP Paid Rural Mexicans a “Pittance” for Wall Street’s Favorite Climate Solution" Bloomberg
  • 6/10/22: "The Looming Threat of Eviction: The Continued Displacement of the Maasai Under the Guise of Conservation in Ngorongoro Conservation Area" 
  • 1/20/22: How Big Beef Is Fueling the Amazon’s Destruction" Bloomberg
  • 1/13/22: "Scientists Search for 10 Elusive Bird Species That Have Been Lost for Years" 
  • IUCN Conservation Congress Marseille, 2021, "Natural allies, Climate and biodiversity are two sides of the same coin"
  • 6/8/21: "Katherine Heigl Joins Effort to Save Utah’s Famous Herd of Wild Horses" Treehugger 
  • 3/15/21: "Global Sand Mining Is Destroying the Planet and Costing Lives" DW
  • 3/11/21: "There’s a Global Plan to Conserve Nature. Indigenous People Could Lead the Way." NYT
  • 3/9/21: "'Frightening' New Data Reveals Humanity Has Destroyed Two-Thirds of World's Rainforest"
  • 2/6/21: "Invasive Insects and Diseases Are Killing Our Forests" NYT
  • 2/2/21: "How Protecting Wetlands Can Help the Climate"
  • 1/29/21: "Biden Executive Order Pushes for Protection of 30% of America's Land, Oceans"
  • 1/28/21: "50 Countries Join Ambitious Plan to Protect 30% of Earth by 2030"
  • 12/16/20: After Wildfires, Mourning the Loss of California’s Giants, NYT 
  • 11/24/20: Deforestation in Para, Brazil has been on the rise - largely because of human activity and land exploitation. How can we stop it?
  • 10/19/20: Deforestation threatens to wipe out a primate melting pot in Indonesia
  • 9/21/20: "Humans Destroyed Intact Ecosystem Land the Size of Mexico in Just 13 Years "
  • 9/16/20: "Humans Wiped Out Two-Thirds of the World’s Wildlife in 50 Years"
  • 9/11/20: "Conservation Works: At Least 28 Birds and Mammals Have Been Saved from Extinction Since 1993"
  • 9/10/20: "World's Wildlife Populations Have Declined by Nearly 70% in Just 50 Years, New Report Says"
  • 9/10/20: "When the Otters Vanished, Everything Else Started to Crumble"
  • 9/10/20: "Humans are decimating wildlife, and the pandemic is a sign, report says"  WaPo
  • 9/5/20: "‘The World That Darwin Never Saw': Scientists Discover 30 New Marine Species in the Galapagos"
  • 8/28/20: "Another COVID-19 reinfection: This time second infection was more severe"
  • 7/28/20: "‘Criminalizing’ dissent, martial law fuel attacks on Philippine environmental defenders"
  • 7/22/20: "Who Suffers When Rainforests Burn?"
  • 7/13/20:"Team Lioness: The Kenyan Women Rangers Risking Their Lives for Wildlife"
  • 6/26/20 The threatened tribe Satellite images show how a lust for gold is damaging Brazil’s remote Amazon
  • June 5, 2020: "B.C. opens Sunshine Coast forest — home to some of Canada’s oldest trees — to logging"
  • ​Last pocket of tropical rainforest in North America under threat
  • June 3: "Data Find Rainforests Lost 14,000 Square Miles in 2019" DW
  • June 2: Study finds sixth mass extinction accelerating at unprecedented rate
  • The Earth Has Lungs. Watch Them Breathe. NatGeo
  • To Prevent Next Coronavirus, Stop the Wildlife Trade, Conservationists Say 2/19/20 NYT
  • Dozens Of Countries Could Reverse Carbon Emissions Just By Caring For Nature (Forbes 1/26/20)
  • Few drug firms are fighting superbug threat (LAT 1/21/20)
  • 'The Amazon is Completely Lawless': the rainforest after Bolsonaro's first year.  12/5/19
  • Staggering level of waste at Great Bear Rainforest logging operations, data reveals 11/30/19
  • Amazon Rainforest Sees Biggest Spike In Deforestation In Over A Decade 11/18/19
  • Insect apocalypse 11/13/19
  • Understanding extinction — humanity has destroyed half the life on Earth 10/18/19
  • Two mountain lions found dead in Santa Monica Mountains had ingested rat poison
  • New Report Finds at Least One in Five Terrestrial Vertebrate Species Are Traded Globally 10/7/19
  • North America Has Lost Nearly 3 Billion Birds Since 1970
  • Mother Earth's MeToo Moment- English Town Joins Campaign for 'Nature's Rights'
  • Forests on Utah’s public lands may soon be torn out
  • Eggs from Northern white rhinos fertilized 8/29/19
  • More of the planet is turning into desert 7/23/19
  • We ignore thousands of threatened plant species at our own peril 8/13/19
  • Human-Caused Extinctions Have Set Mammals Back Millions of Years
  • Less Than a Quarter of the Earth Has Escaped 'Substantial Impacts' by Humans
  • A new map reveals the causes of forest loss worldwide
  • Eight bird species extinctions this decade.
  • Edible animals low on the food chain: insects
  • Frightening plant extinction rate 6/12/19
  • Why Carbon Credits for Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing
  • To solve climate change and biodiversity loss we need...
  • The world lost a Belgium sized rainforest in 2018​
  • A Mysterious Infection is spreading across the globe​
  • 1/8/19 NatlGeo: Go underwater into the overlooked world of freshwater animals
  • ​Humanity has wiped out 60 percent of wildlife
  • E.O. Wilson on Conservation Requirements
  • Scientists agree with Wilson: save half the earth for wildlife
  • As habitat fragmentation increases so does extinction.pdf
  • Conservation successes overshadowed by more species declines – IUCN Red List update
  • Study shows how dogs became friends to humans​​
  • The biofuel bomb that will destroy nature
  • Strange bacteria kills hundreds of thousands of antelope in the Asian Steppe
  • NASA satellite time lapse imagery of life on earth. 
  • NYT: Era of 'Biological Annihilation' is Underway
  • Why Are honeybees dying off?
  • Insects are in Serious Trouble​​
The Human Population Debate
  • 6/3/22: "Japan records its largest natural population decline as births fall" WaPo
  • 1/22/22: "“Overpopulation” is a Flawed Concept" Medium
  • 1/17/22: "China’s Births Hit Historic Low, a Political Problem for Beijing" NYT
  • Were early humans the first victims of the sixth mass extinction? 11/30/19
  • Heres why overpopulation is a myth 5/24/19
  • 5/25/21: WaPo: "It’s wrong to blame ‘overpopulation’ for climate change"
  • 5/22/21: NYT: "Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications" 
  • 5/31/21: NYT: "China Says It Will Allow Couples to Have 3 Children, Up From 2"
  • Human population could take a dive with current trends in fertility
  • "All the people: what happens if humanity's ranks start to shrink?" 
  • UN revises population projections downward
  • The Tragedy of the Tragedy of the Commons, Scientific American
  • Forget Overpopulation. The World could soon face a population bust (LAT, 5/13/19)
  • Humans cause climate change. Do we just need fewer humans?
  • US birthrates plummet (NPR 5/15/19)
  • By the End of This Century, the Global Population Will Start to Shrink​
  • World is Facing a Population Bust 7/16/20
  • Population in more than 20 countries to halve by 2100: Study 7/16/20

Forests and Deforestation: mass extinction and the other species
  • 4/29/22: The Amazon, undone: Devouring the rainforest, WaPo
  • 11/29/21: "Tracing the Trail of Amazon Deforestation" NYT
  • 3/25/21: "Both African elephant species are now endangered, one critically" NatlGeo
  • 3/11/21: "First study of all Amazon greenhouse gases suggests the damaged forest is now worsening climate change"
  • 2/2/21: :"The world’s wetlands are slipping away. This vibrant sanctuary underscores the stakes."
  • 2/2/21: "Putting our public forests into carbon reserves"
  • 1/24/21: "Defanged: Money and Politics Could Doom the Florida Panther — and the Endangered Species Act" (Intercept)
  • "Pando, the Trembling Giant: Richfield, Utah, "One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens" 
  • 11/11/20: "Indigenous leaders count on Biden to help save Amazon forest from 'brink of collapse'"
  • 10/19/20: Driver of the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth identified
  • 10/25/20: Soil Fungi Act Like A Support Network For Trees
  • 9/29/20:"Planetary ‘safety net’ could halt wildlife loss and slow climate breakdown" 
  • 9/28/20: Why Tree-Killing Epidemics Are on the Rise
  • 9/24/20: "As the Amazon burns, what happens to its biodiversity?"
  • 8/5/20: "Herbivores at the highest risk of extinction among mammals, birds, and reptiles" (research paper)
  • 7/31/20: "How Costa Rica Slowed, Stopped, Then Reversed, Deforestation in Their Rain Forests"
  • June 11, 2020: "America's Banks Are Financing Destructive Oil Projects in the Amazon"
  • 6/10/20: New Report Documents Global Insect Decline and Calls for Reforming Industrial Agriculture 
  • 6/5/20: "Mangroves Threatened by Sea Level Rise Could Disappear by 2050"
  • A rewilding triumph-wolves in Yellowstone
  • Just 29000 Western Monarch Butterflies Are Left in California 1/27/20
  • All the Species Declared Extinct This Decade
  • Will We Ever Know the Difference Between a Wolf and a Dog?
  • Urban foxes may be self-domesticating in our midst
  • Once they are gone, they are gone, the fight to save the Sequoias
  • Tropical Forests Are Losing the Ability to Absorb CO2 1/28/20
  • Meet the Amazonian Giant That Helps the Rainforest Make Its Own Rain
  • Blood Gold in the Brazilian Rain Forest: Indigenous people and illegal miners are engaged in a fight that may help decide the future of the planet.
  • “Environmentally Friendly” Charcoal Is Subsidizing Destruction of Gran Chaco
  • The Companies Behind the Burning of the Amazon
  • Who's Burning the Amazon? Rampant Capitalism 8/28/19
  • Feeling Sad About the Amazon Fires? Stop Eating Meat 8/23/19
  • The Amazon rainforest is burning 8/22/19
  • Why the Amazon is on Fire 8/22/19
  • In Bolsonaro’s burning Brazilian Amazon, all our futures are being consumed 8/23/19
  • Fires in the Amazon could be part of a doomsday scenario 8/22/19
  • Amazon rainforest close to tipping point on rain 10/23/19
  • What Bolsonaro plans to do in the Brazilian Amazon (NYT)
  • ​Under Brazil Bolsonaro Amazon Forests Fall NYT 7/28/19
  • Land thieves ramp up deforestation in Brazil 7/4/19
  • High value opportunities for restoring tropical forests. 7/8/19
  • Rainforest on Fire 7/6/19
  • 'We Are Literally Sawing Off the Branch We All Live On'- Amazon Deforestation Increasing Under Bolsonaro
  • The price of ‘progress’ in the Amazon 6/28/19 WaPo
  • Business as Usual Threatens Thousands of Amazon Tree Species
  • Amazon Rainforest Near Collapse
  • Bolsonaro Stands By as 20 thousand invade the Yanomami Reserve in the Amazon 7/21/19
  • World's great forests could lose half of wildlife as planet warms
  • The terrifying phenomenon that is pushing species towards extinction​
Biological Impacts of Climate Change
  • 9/28/22: Guardian "Earth is under threat, yet you would scarcely know it" George Monbiot
  • 8/23/21: "Climate Change Contributed to Europe’s Deadly Floods, Scientists Find" NYT
  • 8/11/21: "Siberia’s wildfires are bigger than all the world’s other blazes combined" WaPo​
  • July 28, 2021: "Beyond human endurance: How climate change is making parts of the world too hot and humid to survive" WaPo
  • 6/17/21: "Too hot to live: Millions worldwide will face unbearable temperatures" NatGeo
  • 3/4/21: "450 butterfly species rapidly declining due to warmer autumns in the western U.S." NatlGeo
  • 2/25/21: "Australian Scientists Warn of urgent action needed to save 19 collapsing ecosystems"
  • 2/7/21: "One year Since Australia's Devastating Wildfires, Anger Grows at Climate Change 'Inaction'"
  • 2/10/21: "New Study Finds Trees Absorbing More Carbon than Previously Thought"
  • Why Planting Trees Is One of the Most Effective Forms of Climate Action
  • 12/3/20: The Climate Crisis Is Already Killing People, New Lancet Report Warns
  • 12/1/20: Climate Change Threatens Hopi Corn and Way of Life in American West
  • 10/19/20: Driver of the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth identified
  • 7/22/20 "Climate refugee wave coming" Propublica and NYT
  • 6/26/20 The threatened tribe Satellite images show how a lust for gold is damaging Brazil’s remote Amazon
  • Will climate change push these amphibians to the brink? 
  • Climate change is playing havoc with Mexico’s monarch butterfly migration 1/5/20 WaPo
  • The faces of extinction we lost in 2019
  • Geographers find tipping point in deforestation
  • Climate Crisis Threatens a Third of Plant Species, Endangering Food Supply
  • Climate Change Threatens the World's Food Supply UN Warns
  • Almost a quarter of eucalyptus trees found to be threatened with extinction
  • This Report Shows How Climate Change Will Affect Every Child
  • The Answer to Climate-killing cow farts might come from the sea
  • California will lose 389 bird species to climate change (Audubon Report, 10/30/19)
  • Indigenous farming practices failing as climate change disrupts seasons
  • Fires in the Amazon could be part of a doomsday scenario 8/22/19
  • Don't burn trees to fight climate change, McKibben
  • World Forest Wildlife Decline 53% since 1970
  • EU plans to plant 3 billion trees and massively expand organic farming (New Scientist 5/20/20) 
  • Massive reforestation is key to averting a climate catastrophe 
  • Tree planting and climate crisis (Gua 7/4/19)
  • The trouble with trees as a climate crisis solution
  • Planting Trees Won’t Stop Climate Change 5/25/20 Slate
  • Almost 600 Plant Species Have Become Extinct in the Last 250 Years
  • Record-Breaking Heat in Alaska Wreaks Havoc on Communities and Ecosystems
  • Humans are causing the extinction of up to 1 million species
  • Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert on the UN Extinction Report 
  • 5 Major Crops in the Crosshairs of Climate Change, NPR
  • Antarctic Ancient Moss Beds dying from climate change
  • Climate Change and Human Hunger
  • Pole reversals and the Ice Age
  • Deforestation and climate change and extinct bird species
  • Trees are our best defense against climate change​
  • Climate Change is wiping out parasites, critical to ecosystems
  • NG amphibian death C AM
  • Warning of 'ecological Armageddon''
  • The climate crisis is already here
  • Tropical Deforestation and Climate
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